Group development progresses through four stages: orientation where members get to know each other, confrontation where members resolve issues about roles and expectations, differentiation where members divide work, and collaboration where members form cohesive relationships committed to success. Groups accomplish goals through cooperative effort and help members learn about their personal identities and find affiliation through shared interests or tasks.
Group development progresses through four stages: orientation where members get to know each other, confrontation where members resolve issues about roles and expectations, differentiation where members divide work, and collaboration where members form cohesive relationships committed to success. Groups accomplish goals through cooperative effort and help members learn about their personal identities and find affiliation through shared interests or tasks.
Group development progresses through four stages: orientation where members get to know each other, confrontation where members resolve issues about roles and expectations, differentiation where members divide work, and collaboration where members form cohesive relationships committed to success. Groups accomplish goals through cooperative effort and help members learn about their personal identities and find affiliation through shared interests or tasks.
goal accomplishment - goals require cooperative effort of the entire group
personal identity group helps us know more about ourselves affiliation people associate with others when they have something in common emotional support people rely on others for emotional support orientation 1st stage of group development members getting to know each other confrontation 2nd stage group development members resolve issues regarding roles and expectations differentiation 3rd stage group development members divide work and perform their tasks collaboration 4th stage group development members form cohesive relationship / commit to success virtual team group that relies on electronic communication rather than face to face additive tasks independent group task in which members contributions are summed or pooled conjunctive tasks task divided into subtasks and then assigned to members disjunctive tasks group decision making task or analysis usually yes or no process losses - inefficiencies that come from trying to coordinate and organize a larger group social density - the number of people located in an area assigned roles group roles formally assigned to members